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Anthony Luvera

Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals including the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland and Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie. His writing appears regularly in a wide range of periodicals and peer-reviewed journals including Photoworks, Source and Photographies. Anthony is Course Director of BA (Hons) Photography at Coventry University, and has lectured for institutions such as Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London College of Communication, University for the Creative Arts Farnham and University College Falmouth. He also facilitates workshops and gives lectures for the public education programmes of the National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery and community photography projects across the UK.

[Headline solo exhibition for the Brighton Photo Fringe biennial. Funded by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund and Brighton Photo Fringe, with support from Metro Imaging, Brighton Housing Trust, Colourstream and Photocrowd. An online archive of this work is currently under development.]

[Exhibition on 30 outdoor poster sites on public spaces across Brighton & Hove. Commissioned by Photoworks, New Writing South and Pink Fringe. Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, Sussex Community Foundation, Brighton & Hove City Council, and Arts Council England.]

[Invited to give Keynote Conference Paper by Photography and the Archive Research Centre at University of Creative Arts London, London College of Communication, alongside Dr Patrizio di Bello (Birkbeck, University of London), Laura Guy (Manchester School of Art and Goldsmiths University London), and Rosy Martin (Artist), convened by Sara Davidmann (Photography and the Archive Research Centre, LCC, University of the Arts London) and Noni Stacey (Photography and the Archive Research Centre, LCC, University of the Arts London). This event was part of Moose on the Loose 2015, A Biennale of Research, curated by Professor Val Williams (Photography and the Archive Research Centre, LCC, University of the Arts London).]

[Commissioned to design and facilitate two-day workshop for National Portrait Gallery with patients of the Mildred Creek Unit at Great Ormand Street Hospital, an inpatient unit for children with mental health issues.]

[Panel discussion focused on issues involved in the creation of work by artists using strategies of dialogue, participation and collaboration in the context of community groups.]

Publications, Monographs, Book Chapters, and Journal Articles

Ø Luvera, A. and Griffin, S. (2015) ‘What is the role of artists in defining place and creating change in the world?’ in In Conversation: Place and Revolution. Edited by Gemma Turnbull. Pittsburgh: Open Engagement.

[Journal article co-written with Synthia Griffin, Curator of Community and Engagement, Tate Modern.]

Ø Luvera, A. (2015) ‘Is it possible to have a truly reciprocal partnership with a community?’ in The Questions We Ask Together. Edited by Gemma Turnbull. Pittsburgh: Open Engagement.

[4,000 copies distributed freely to residents of Malmo Sweden, and Copenhagen Denmark to accompany the exhibition of Not Going Shopping, a solo headline exhibition for the Malmo Fotobiennal which took place from 11/09/15 to 20/09/15. The publication features a commissioned in-conversation between Anthony Luvera and Jason E Bowman (Master of Fine Art Programme Leader at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg). Funded and supported by Malmo Fotobiennial, Malmo Stad, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Photoworks, New Writing South, Pink Fringe, and Queer in Brighton.]

[Edited transcription of round-table discussion with Ben Burbidge (University of Sussex and Photoworks editor), Andrew Dewdney (Professor, London Southbank University) Matt Daw (PhotoVoice), Noni Stacey (PARC, University of the Arts London) and Eugnie Dolberg (artist). This article explores the histories of community photography in Britain, questions what terms such as ‘participation’ really mean, and considers the implications of the current art world interest in collaborative practices.]

Ø Luvera, A. (2014) ‘Mr Maholta’s Party’. Source 79. Belfast: Source.

[Edited transcription from oral history interview conducted with the artist, curator and activist Sunil Gupta, co-founder of the organisations Autograph and INIVA, and editor of the 1990 publication Ecstatic Antibodies, widely regarded a seminal contribution to the discourse of the analysis of the visual rhetoric of HIV / AIDS.]

[4,000 copies distributed freely across the city of Brighton & Hove, to accompany exhibition of Not Going Shopping, a solo exhibition staged in public spaces across Brighton & Hove from 07/02/14 – 07/03/14. Funded and supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Photoworks, New Writing South, Pink Fringe, and Queer in Brighton.]

Recent Publications

Gary Hall (2016) Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities. MIT Press. In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to transform their own lives and labor.

Virginia Crisp (2015) Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years

Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska, eds., Photomediations: An Open Reader (Open Humanities Press 2015). Photomediations: A Reader is part of a larger editorial and curatorial project called Photomediations: An Open Book, whose goal is to redesign a coffee-table book as an online experience.

Open Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014). Book co-authored by Coventry’s Open Media Group and Mute Publishing. (Open access version available here.)

Jonathan Shaw, NEWFOTOSCAPES, Library of Birmingham, 2014. NEWFOTOSCAPES seeks to navigate the evolving topography surrounding the image in the 21st century; Shaw advocates a new way of thinking about photographic production & education in a post-digital era.